MANCHESTER POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2019 ENTRY OUR Is Manchester the place MEET for you? Come and see for yourself. President and Vice-Chancellor: COVER Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell A distinguished physiologist, Professor US Rothwell is Co-Chair of the Council for Science and Technology, and former STARS President of the Royal Society of Biology – At an open day read more on p123. www.manchester.ac.uk Meet our people, explore our campus, ask questions and get a sense of what it’s like Farhana Choudhury Arthur Yushi /TheUniversityOfManchester to study here at one of our postgraduate MEd Psychology PhD Neuroscience open days. of Education Immersing himself /officialuom Raising educational in culture on campus www.manchester.ac.uk/opendays aspirations for local – read more on p41. students – read more @OfficialUoM on p22. www.manchester.ac.uk/ Overseas student-made If you live abroad and cannot visit Manchester, we attend various events worldwide throughout the year. www.manchester.ac.uk/ Explore your subject overseasevents For each subject we provide contact Chancellor: Lemn Sissay MBE details so you can find the most up-to- date information – see p54 onwards. Godfrey Shirima Internationally renowned At a time to suit you performance poet, writer Take an independent look around our MSc Computer and broadcaster, Lemn is Science campus. Start at our University Giftshop the University’s Chancellor Equity and Merit – read more on p42. in University Place, where you can pick up a Scholar from map and get information. Open Monday to Tanzania – read Friday, 9am to 5pm. more on p18. Astrid Weston PhD Graphene Joe Blakey www.manchester.ac.uk/visit-us NOWNANO CDT PhD Human Geography Beatriz Costa Gomes Bringing sustainable If you need this practices to rural Exploring the city PhD Neuroscience and information in an Book onto a guided tour. Held throughout communities in India and beyond – read Mathematics and President’s the year, these give you a chance to meet – read more on p22. more on p38. Doctoral Scholar alternative format, current students and discover the highlights Working across disciplines – read more on p14. please call our Student of our campus first-hand. www.manchester.ac.uk/ Recruitment Office: guidedvisits Our location: t: +44 (0)161 660 6494 Manchester Museum is one of our inspiring cultural institutions - read more on p40. 1 CONTENTS 1 Our cover stars – meet our people and hear their stories 4 WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 6 Choose Manchester – where education is a force for change 8 Follow in their footsteps – brilliant minds from our history 10 Research beacons – how our research helps the world 14 Pioneering research – why our students chose Manchester 18 Your doorway to the world – gain international employability 20 CREATE YOUR OWN PATH 22 Make a difference – give back to society 24 Studies to suit you – fit postgrauate learning into your life 26 Notes from a graduate – hear from an inspiring alumna 28 Plot your career path – giving you opportunities to develop your skills 30 Access our support – services to help you be your best 32 Value your well-being – first-class sports and well-being 34 GET YOUR BEARINGS 36 Explore Manchester – the best of brilliant Manchester 40 Culture on campus – lose yourself in our culture and heritage 44 Get to know our campus – landmarks, facilities and favourites 48 Settle into accommodation – our halls and living in Manchester 52 WHAT YOU CAN STUDY 54 Explore our courses 122 PREPARE FOR MANCHESTER 124 Entry requirements – qualifications, support and language requirements 126 Index WELCOME TO 134 City map 136 Campus map MANCHESTER2 3 ou’re here because you have a dream: Y to advance or change your career, to immerse yourself in a subject you love, to meet future mentors, colleagues and friends. At The University of Manchester you’ll find an incredible range of opportunities to take these WANDER next steps. You’ll see your dreams take shape and become real. THROUGH Let’s start exploring. KNOWLEDGE4 5 CHOOSE t The University of Manchester, the MANCHESTER A next revolution is never far away. This is a place where education is a force for change. Since 1824 our doors have been open to the working classes of Manchester, a city characterised by industrial progress and radical spirit. Here, women fought for equality. Scientists split the atom. A wartime codebreaker shaped the digital lives we now take for granted. Two researchers brought graphene – the wonder material that is one atom thick, but 200 times stronger than steel – to the world. People provide the revolutionary spark that drives us. Our researchers find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, from creating sustainable energy to alleviating poverty. Our students and staff strive to make a difference to society. Our alumni become informed global citizens and leaders in their fields. Here, ideas become actions – and those actions change lives. We’re a truly international institution, welcoming and influencing thousands of people, communities and organisations across the world, and we enjoy a global reputation for pioneering research and innovation. www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate 6 WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 7 FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS oin a community of global innovators and pioneers whose J achievements have helped shape the modern world – a place where 25 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied. You’ll study in an academic environment that helps brilliant thinkers turn inspiration into reality, encouraging innovation, experimentation and creative thinking. 1957 Bernard Lovell completes the Lovell Telescope, the Here are just a few highlights from our history. world’s largest steerable radio telescope at the time, at Jodrell Bank. 1993 1948 Michael Smith, a Freddie Williams and Tom Manchester PhD 1906 Kilburn create the world’s graduate, receives Christabel Pankhurst, who first digital stored-program the Nobel Prize would become a leading computer, ‘the Baby’. in Chemistry for figure in the suffragette his work on DNA movement, become the engineering. first woman to graduate 1979 from the University in Law. Arthur Lewis, having 1915 already become Britain’s William Bragg, while still a first black professor when research student, becomes he joined us, becomes the the youngest ever winner of first black winner of a Nobel the Nobel Prize in Physics. Prize in Economic Sciences. 1917 1921 Ernest Rutherford Marie Stopes, who had 2010 becomes the first person been the first female Andre Geim and Kostya to create an artificial lecturer in the Faculty Novoselov are awarded the nuclear reaction in a of Science, founds the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for laboratory, ushering pioneering Mothers’ Alan Turing, one of the their isolation of graphene’s in a new era of nuclear Clinic for Birth Control WWII codebreakers, potentially world-changing research. in London. completes pioneering properties. 1904 work in machine Catherine Chisholm becomes the first intelligence at woman to graduate in Medicine from Manchester, paving Manchester Medical School. She helped the way for artificial www.manchester.ac.uk/heritage set up the Manchester Hospital for Babies. intelligence. 8 WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 9 RESEARCH BEACONS orld-class research lies at the heart of everything we W do at Manchester. It informs our courses, unites our disciplines, brings innovation to industry and transforms lives across the globe. Study with us and you’ll learn at the frontier of knowledge, where breakthroughs happen. We take full advantage of our size and breadth, bringing the best minds together from diverse disciplines and cross- sector partnerships to forge new ways forward in multiple fields. Manchester’s research beacons are exemplars of this collaborative ethos, pioneering innovative solutions to some of BREAK the biggest challenges facing THROUGH the planet today. 10 WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 11 1 ADVANCED MATERIALS GLOBAL Transforming technologies to CHALLENGES, create a better, safer world. MANCHESTER SOLUTIONS 2 1 1.2 billion people worldwide CANCER struggle to access clean drinking Fighting the onset, water. We’re creating affordable spread and impact of desalination technologies to a major global killer. bring fresh water to everyone. 2 Breast cancer is women’s most common cancer. We introduced 3 the world’s number-one endocrine treatment. ENERGY Pioneering the 3 To mitigate climate change we BREAK sustainable energy need affordable low-carbon systems of the energy. We’re creating new THROUGH future. designs and technologies for cheaper nuclear reactor construction. 4 4 One in ten people live below GLOBAL the international poverty line. INEQUALITIES We’re influencing policies and Seeking to bring practices that work to reduce about a persistent poverty. fairer world. 5 There’s no test for Parkinson’s disease, which makes treatment 5 hard and a cure impossible. Our biomarker breakthrough may enable early diagnosis, helping INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY to save lives on a global scale. At the forefront of a www.manchester.ac.uk/beacons bio-industrial revolution. 12 WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE WANDER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE 13 rofessor Danielle George chats to PhD students PIONEERING P Beatriz Costa Gomes (PhD Neuroscience and Mathematics) and David Buil Gil RESEARCH (PhD Criminology and Social Statistics) about the research culture at Manchester. Danielle: So what brought you both to Manchester? David: My criminology supervisor’s excellent reputation brought me to Manchester. Having another supervisor from social statistics was also essential, as my work crosses both disciplines. Beatriz: Manchester had the interdisciplinary approach that I wanted, too – and the prestige. I’ve helped organise a University-wide conference with presentations from all three Faculties; we learned so much from each other. We also do outreach work with the Museum of Science and Industry, and with local schools, making our research easy to explain to kids. My criminology At Manchester we see Postgraduates often worry supervisor’s excellent our students as partners.